Current Projects - Alpha Legion Support Squad

OMG AN UPDATE.

First time I've had the chance to get any painting done for a while, so I figured I'd do something a bit less important while I get my bearings again. Didn't quite come out how I'd intended. Completely forgot how I did the original tactical squad. Not too horrible though.

One more status update

Alright, we'll be moving on the 16th of August, and I've got a week and a half off after that. Will definitely get some painting in then out of sheer boredom if nothing else.

Status Update

I know it's a bit soon after starting the blog to be having one of these, but I've got a bit of a living situation crisis at the moment, so I won't likely be doing much painting over the coming couple of weeks. I'll get some in where I can, but I'm getting kicked out of my apartment so management can do renovations, so dealing with that's going to eat up a lot of my time.

Current Projects - Pre-Heresy Lernaean Terminators

Alright, so it's looking like I took a step down after the first unit of Alpha Legionnaires. I didn't like the way the grime, dirt and battle damage turned out on the first unit, so I tried to apply it a bit different and it came out way too heavy and thick. The NMM gold didn't turn out how I'd intended, and the Sergeant's face looks like crap. That said, they're good enough and took long enough that I'll keep 'em. Ah well. Will do better lest time

Early Beginnings - First KotE HQ Choices

Alright, pumping another one of these out. In a way, I'm trying to get these out of the way. All the models of my Space Marine chapter represent a time when I was absolute crap at painting, and in a rush to get them all done. I'd much rather focus on the stuff that doesn't make me look completely incompetent, but well...it's part of the story, & part of my growth into what I do now (which still isn't amazing, but at least it's not terrible).

This was my original chapter master, librarian and Captain Sicarius, since the Knights of the Eclipse are technically an Ultramarines successor. Was gonna do blood angels, but no thunderfire cannons over there, so...nope.

Now that I've 'upgraded' to a semi-converted Marneus Calgar for my chapter master, here is Captain Clegane. He's another of my earlier, sloppier attempts at shading and blending. Sword 'effects' done with light brush strokes of orange followed by lighter strokes of yellow, followed by accidentally-not-so-light strokes of white. Added the dead termagant head on the base as a 'fluff' centerpiece, since the lore of the chapter involves enmity with the tyranids (since I've got about 10k in them too...). Still pretty fond of that, even if it's so caked with paint you can't make out the detail.

Here's Captain Not-Sicarius, painted before I ever tried to make a glow effect with the plasma pistol, and before I had a clue in hell what drybrushing was (Yes, the base is dried, but I did all of the snow basing after the army was finished; til that point, all the bases were black and bare. Yes, basing 200 models was tedious as fuck). 

And last, here's the company's designated Codicier. Caked on paint again (lot of that early on...dark days indeed). Loin cloth turned out ok though. Slightly deviated from the Codex Astartes on color scheme; all the Librarians are white to represent the purity they must maintain when dealing with the warp. Overall I was proud of this model; still am to an extent. Decent highlights on the cloth and torso, good (well, better) brush control on the axe details...May not look like it, but I *did* water down my paints here. However, this was before I had a clue in hell how to paint white, so I had to do about 5 layers of the crap before the black (STUPID) primer didn't show through. 

Current Projects - Sector Imperialis

Alright, so I haven't been giving my Alpha Legionnaires the attention they deserve this last week, but I'll try to have the Cataphractii Terminators done by next Friday. For now, this has been my big project.

I've got a full Sector Imperialis Realm of Battle board now, and spent the evening finishing one of the tiles. It went by surprisingly fast, actually, but I've still got five to go (not to mention 16 zone mortalis tiles, but those will be a gradual project). 

Early Beginnings - KotE Assault Marines

Alright, time for another oldie.

These guys were some of the first ones that I started shading, and I did them about a year go. Early on, my first shading attempts were very sloppy. While I now have the brush control to localize the ink washes, that wasn't always the case. So I'd take the nuln oil, and wash the entire model with it. This resulted in somewhat splotchy colors on multiple occasions, so try to localize it when you can (if you're certain you can cover all the areas you should). 

Another thing I figured out is that druuchi violet actually makes a PERFECT shade for red. Complements the colors nicely. 

Still no decent highlights or detail work, but we'll get there.